An Armenian immigrant was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison for plotting to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons from the former Soviet Union to an FBI informant.
A former jail guard in Arkansas has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for sneaking syringes, marijuana and cell phones to inmates by hiding the items in food.
Russian news agencies are quoting a senior prosecutor as saying that his office has exposed an attempt by military officers to smuggle $18 million worth of stolen Russian weapons to China.
Egyptian police arrested 40 suspected smugglers and seized goods in a new crackdown on smuggling into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security official said Thursday.
A Ghanaian man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to smuggling East African economic refugees into the United States via Latin America.
An Australian teacher who allegedly stuffed his luggage with 2,000-year old animal mummies and religious figurines wrapped as gifts was arrested Wednesday and charged with smuggling antiquities, an Egyptian airport security official said.
A South African man accused of attempting to smuggle hundreds of rare chameleons, snakes, lizards and frogs out of Madagascar inside his jacket and luggage was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to a year in jail.
Federal authorities say six people have been arrested on charges of conspiring to smuggle the ivory of African elephants into the United States.
Federal agents say a Canadian trucker was caught trying to smuggle $2 million of U.S. cash into the United States.
On the night Lazaro Mendez got an alert that his boat had been stolen from the Florida Keys, he was swept up in a new chapter of the Cuban boat people drama.
Switzerland's top prosecutor charged 10 people with laundering more than $1 billion dollars during a decade-long mafia cigarette smuggling operation, Swiss authorities said Monday.
A Chinese woman was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison for seeking to buy military equipment, used to gauge the power of nuclear explosions, for export to China.
The House on Wednesday moved to crack down on the contraband cigarette sales that drain federal, state and local treasuries of billions while providing a lucrative source of income for criminals.
A federal grand jury has indicted two South Dakota men on charges of smuggling African leopard hides and a skull into the United States.
Border Patrol agents have arrested 49 alleged illegal immigrants who were discovered being smuggled into the U.S. inside the tank of a water truck.
Gus Dominguez negotiated the contract for the first Cuban player to defect to the United States. He opened his home to prospects fresh from the communist island and taught them about bank accounts.
Israel's army says it shot and killed a suspected smuggler in a rare incident on the frontier with Syria.
The founder of a Russian company involved in trade with Iran has been charged with trying to smuggle a metal that can be used for weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems to the Islamic republic, prosecutors said Thursday.
It might have looked like easy money to O'Hare International Airport worker Riad Skaff: $26,500 to help smuggle night-vision goggles, rifle scopes and cash aboard Paris-bound jets.
Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan are among "special interest" countries identified by the U.S. government as sponsors or supporters of terrorism.
The intercepted e-mail was alarmingly matter-of-fact for anyone worried about a new terror attack: "getting into U.S is no problem at all. thats what i do best."
A federal jury found a Bahamian fishing boat captain guilty of second-degree murder in the drowning of three illegal immigrants he was trying to smuggle into the United States.
Police across Europe on Monday detained 75 people suspected of funneling illegal immigrants — mainly Iraqi Kurds — into northern Europe, French officials said.
Smugglers fleeing from Cuba's Coast Guard overturned a boat loaded with U.S.-bound migrants to distract pursuers, killing a woman and an 11-year-old boy, Cuba reported Wednesday.
A Chinese citizen has pleaded guilty in San Diego to trying to smuggle military-grade sensors to her homeland.